BiodiverseCity St. Louis is a community initiative to promote, protect and plan for biodiversity throughout the Greater St. Louis Region, recognizing our region’s reliance on biodiversity, the variety of life and natural systems. Learn more

Sustainability in Higher Education

We support institutions as they integrate sustainability into their curriculum and on their campus grounds.

We are able to assist your university with a number of tasks associated with improving the environmental literacy within your campus culture. These services are free-of-cost, and could include:

Assessing existing operations and education and outreach needs

Working with sustainability task forces, environmental committees, and "green teams" to identify team goals and objectives as well as university-wide initiatives

Improving current operations to meet industry best practices and current standards

As a Tier II supporting organization, the EarthWays Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden is proud of its work with the Consortium to promote sustainability in institutions of higher learning.

The mission of the St. Louis Regional Higher Education Sustainability Consortium (STL-HESC) is to connect the strengths, resources and knowledge of St. Louis area universities and colleges, to advance collective sustainable initiatives that cultivate innovation, to eliminate non-productive competitionand to create a network that is more than the sum of its parts.